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def reverse(s):
try:
trollstring = ""
for apksays in s:
trollstring = apksays + trollstring
except:
print("error/abend in reverse function")
return trollstring
s = ""
print reverse(s)
try:
s = "Insert whatever 'trollspeak/trolllanguage' gibberish occurs here..."
s = reverse(s)
print(s)
except Exception as e:
print(e)

ParseError: bad input on line5

http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~kwalsh/python/

Several of the PGDP projects of maths books are meant to be marked up with LaTeX, e.g. this one in round F1:
Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (1838) (ed. Joseph Liouville) (warning, PGDP membership required)
Now this is probably not a really suitable example for school use, but e.g. a book like Elementary Algebra for Schools, by H.S. Hall and S.R. Knight (1885) (warning, PGDP membership required) sounds about right.
That book has already been checked and formatted but needs to be checked again and post-processed, afterwards it's public domain for anyone (including California schools) to download. In a few years time at most.
This page (public) might be helpful if you want to help out making (old) public domain maths texts available as LaTeX e-books: PGDP LaTeX resources, especially Distributed Proofreaders LaTeX formatting manual

Geometry drawingprogram.
Very nice.
http://www.ofset.org/drgeo

This one is amazing too.
http://math.holycross.edu/~ahwang/current/ePiX.htm l

GNU plot, as several people have suggested.

If your doing stats stuff, seriously look into R.

ePix looks good, although I haven't tried it.

asymptote is very powerful, although you probably want to do some tool hacking or scripting to make use of it.

Probably the ultimate tool for such things is Mathematica. Costs money, but the student version is feasible and it's a lovely for all this sort of thing.

And, of course, you could try searching freshmeat --- there are many many other tools there.

I ended up taking only 1 CS course and it was very bad, and not useful. This was mostly due to a really bad prof that ended up losing his job.

So, I am currently the Lead Developer for a small software company and have only taken 1 computer course. And I know of at least 1 time where I got hired over another person because I had a Math degree as opposed to his CS degree. Their reasoning was interesting..

The hiring people had done a lot of CS and to them.. it was easy. But they had also taken a few high level math coures found them hard (well.. duh). When they found out I had taken many difficult higher level math courses, they just assumed that the CS stuff would come real easy to me.

Kind of neat story I think, just my 2 cents.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

United Colors of Benetton ads? How old are you trolls, 15? This stuff is great! Thank you holycross.edu for allowing me to rip your pictures off :

Ain't that cute Notice that America and Russia are both black. Don't try to analyze why they're both black, it's to make people yap and sell clothes, dumbass. Not that I can disagree.

Harry Potter and Mr. GQ about to fuck each others brains out An alternative view is that Jews and Muslims will live in peace, but I don't buy it.

HOLY FUCK! Bet you weren't expecting that, eh? You thought they were all so prudish in the late 80s, didn't you? Anyways, United Colors of Benetton is famous for these black/white ads - they milked them for all they're worth.

Albino

Poverty

By 1996, they've sort of ran out of things to shock us with. The excising of shock begins.

Finally, having lost their ability to shock, they gain the ability to embarass us - that is to say, we feel embarassd for them. Oh how witty, how clever!

---------

The end.

Moral of the story, United Colors of Benetton was an evil, exploitative corporation, but for my money, their earlier ad campaigns expose our world for the lifeless, viewless, shockless mind-numbing wasteland it is.

IDC, the highly respected industry auditing company, confirmed this week that stories posted by michael account for more than 80 percent of all stories posted to Slashdot at weekends. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Slashdot is collapsing in complete disarray, finishing dead last in signal:noise ratio tests. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Slashdot's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Slashdot faces a bleak future. In fact there is a possibility that there won't be any future at all for Slashdot, due to the actions of michael - a known censoring dictator, as well as an self-admitted torturer of cats. michael continues to lose the respect of all slashdot readers. censored posts die like leaves from a tree during fall, trampled beneath the feet of jack-booted thugs.
Worryingly, the number of stories posted by michael during the week is also on the rise.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers:
Slashdot leader CmdrTaco states that there are 70000 users of Slashdot, down from previous estimates of several hundred thousand.
[Side note: the decline of Slashdot has mirrored the decline of Linux bandwagon jumping failure VALinux]
How many of those readers comment on stories by michael? Let's see. The number of posts to stories by michael averages roughly 110, each poster usually making multiple comments. About 40 different users typically respond to stories posted by michael. Therefore about ((40/70000)*100%) = 0.06% of all Slashdot users care about stories posted by michael. This is consistent with expected results when correlating the estimated audience of all the posts noting michael's hypocrisy and control-freak tendencies. Evidently the users of this weblog choose not to feed that particular troll. Many even choose to no longer visit.

Due to the troubles of VALinux, abysmal sales and so on, Slashdot is in danger of being sold to the highest bidder - the bandwidth costs far outweigh the pitiful earnings from the banners and advertisments posing as stories. Soon Slashdot will be dead, its corpse raped by the censorship policies of the least favorite editor. Readers leave in droves, the herd instinct that brought them here now carries them away.

All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in readership by the crucial virgin geek market. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will require the removal of Michael Simms from an editorial position. This seems unlikely to happen, and all the while Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.

UPDATE:
It now seems that Linux bandwagon-jumping failure, VA-Software (formerly VALinux, formerly VA-Research) has finally accepted the inevitable. The pitiful and predictable demise of the still over-priced (at ~$1) startup creates more doubts as to the future of Slashdot. Larger adverts and new editors seem unlikely to save Taco's dream. Michael remains, though he has partially relinquished his censorship duties to his partner in deceit, the geek chick jamie. His debt to society is, as of typing, still unpaid.